, 1887-04-24
ODDS AND ENDS.
Stray Leaves From a Reporter's
Note Book,
Gathered During the Past Twenty.
Four Hours.

1he leal esIate uleH were busy as usual
yesterday.
The Will Carleton company are stop
ping at the Dyer hotel.
The shows are coming thicker aud
faster, and more of them"
The police courts ground out the usual
number of DRINKS yesterday.
The Burlington & Missouri surveyors
have been taking a rest on account Of the
blizzard.
The hotels of the city are getting to be
overcrowded, and business is therefore
good in that line.
The grass ought TO take the biggest
kind of a boom, after all the rain and
snow we have had.
Two or three of the old residents of
Cheyenne have a strong desire to settle in
Southern California.
The school election will take place on
Monday, May 2, and will probable be an
uneventful one in most respects.
The schools of the city have five weeks
more to ruiz before the term closes. OF
course commencement exercises are to be
held.
H. j. Self is at Silver Clown prepar-
ing to begin work on the furnace which is
to be:put in at that enterprising mining
camp.
Work on the capitol has been delayed
somewhat on account of the late storm.
The same may also be said of the Union
Pacific depot.
The county Jail is getting overcrowded.
There are already twenty-four prisoners in
the Jail, and in some instances three in
the same cell.
A matinee was held at the opera house
yesterday afternoon, and last evening the
opera of"Erminie' was presented and to a
crowded house, by the Carleton company.
The number of buildings of all kinds
that are to be erected in Cheyenne this
season will be greater than that of any
preceding season since Cheyenne had a
history.
Read the church notices, and do not
forget that the Young sMen's Christian
Association will hold devotional services
at the First Baptist church at $3.50 this
afternoon.
The preliminary examination in the
case of the territory of Wyoming VS..
Chas. w. Wilson will occur before Judge
Lee tomorrow, if the witnesses can all be
found.
The weather yesterday was a slight i'm
provement on that of the day before, but
there is a chance for further Improvement.
The storm was not so severe north of
Pole creek as it was in Cheyenne.
The meeting of the corner stone COM
mittee, which was to have been held last
evening, WIS postponed until tomorrow
at 7:30 p. N. at the Office of the Wyo-
ming Stock Growers Association.
A certain party bought a block eight
lotsl or Thursday in Cheyenne, and paid
therefor $1,000. Yesterday the same
party got somewhat offended when offered
$4,000 for the same property, and wanted
to know of those who made the offer
what they took him for.
The evening paper stated last night
that 1T will be Of interest" etc., to learn
that Wesley Merritt, late colonel of the
18th cavalry, has been made a brigadier
general: AS all other papers in the city
mentioned this fact a week ago, the item
is beginning to lose its interesting fea-
lures.
The United States signal observer re.
ports as follows: Maximum temperature
yesterday, l0'; minimum temperature,
22o; highest wind. Is miles per hour
direction, N. w. At 3 p. IN. the tenn
perature at Salt Lake was 46o, Denver 43o,
Omaha Az, North Platte 40, Yankton,
AZ.